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Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement

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 This set of 44 volumes, originally published between 1924 and 1995, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on the Labour Movement, including labour union history, the early stages and development of the Labour Party, and studies on the working classes.
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The Political Dimension Of Labor-Management Relations - National Trends And State Level Developments In Massachusetts (Volume 2)

by Phillip Saunders

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 First published in 1986. This study examines both laborâ€™s and managementâ€™s political activities in the state of Massachusetts. The primary aim of this study is to trace the evolution of public policy in the United States in the broad area of labor-management relations. This title will be of interest to students of political and labor history.
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The Political Dimension Of Labor-Management Relations - National Trends And State Level Developments In Massachusetts (Volume 1)

by Phillip Saunders

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 First published in 1986. This study examines both laborâ€™s and managementâ€™s political activities in the state of Massachusetts. The primary aim of this study is to trace the evolution of public policy in the United States in the broad area of labor-management relations. This title will be of interest to students of political and labor history.
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King Labour - The British Working Class, 1850-1914

by David Kynaston

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 First published in 1976. This book covers working-class history from the decline of Chartism to the formation of the Labour Party and its early development to 1914. The book is designed for students studying the political, social and economic background to modern Britain as well as those specialising in nineteenth-century English history.
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Democratic Socialism And The Cost Of Defence - The Report And Papers Of The Labour Party Defence Study Group

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 First published in 1979. The report of the Labour Party Defence Study Group, which met from early 1975 to mid-1977, represents a unique attempt to portray defence policy in the context of disarmament and the need to restructure and control the institutions of defence â€" in particular the defence industry.
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An Infantile Disorder? - The Crisis And Decline Of The New Left

by Nigel (Colgate University, Usa) Young

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 First published in 1977. Nigel Young traces the New Left Movementâ€™s growth and crisis mainly in Britain and America, where it reached its greater strength, but attention is also paid to parallel developments in similar movements elsewhere.
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The Fifth Estate - Britain'S Unions In The Seventies

by Robert Taylor

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 First published in 1978. Considering the major and medium-sized unions separately, the author examines the sudden and rapid growth of unionisation in Britain, the structure of the unions, their effectiveness, the influence they had, their international record, and the nature of trade union democracy.
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What'S Left? - Women In Culture And The Labour Movement

by Julia Swindells e Lisa Jardine

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 First published in 1990. In Whatâ€™s Left?, Swindells and Jardine analyse the difficulties the Left had including women in its account of class, to clarify general problems in British Left thought. It will be fascinating reading for students of cultural studies, history, politics and womenâ€™s studies.
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Reshaping Labour - Organisation, Work And Politics

by John (University Of Nottingham, Uk) Holford

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 First published in 1988. This is a grass-roots study of a key period in the building of Labourâ€™s political and industrial base. It is a study of how unions and Labour were organised and motivated to seize their moments of destiny â€" and of how a new political industrial movement was limited by the common-sense of the age in which it was born.
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New Jerusalems - The Labour Party And The Economics Of Democratic Socialism

by Elizabeth Durbin

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 First published in 1985. Against the background of the economic turmoil of the 1930s, a group of young economists working for the Labour Party thrashed out the theoretical and practical implications of the Keynesian revolution. New Jerusalems examines in this collective enterprise in economic policy-making.
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British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914

by G. D. H. Cole

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 First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the authorâ€™s belief that there was a need for a positive effort to re-create the legion of inspired and untiring propagandists for Socialism whose work made the Labour Party possible.
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A History Of The Labour Party From 1914

by G. D. H. Cole

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 First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence in the first world war to its return to power with an effective majority after the second world war. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.
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Labour'S Conscience - The Labour Left, 1945-51

by Jonathan Schneer

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 First published in 1988. The years 1945-51 were crucial to the Labour Party and the Left in Britain. This elegantly written book traces the gradual and painful disillusionment of the Labour Left with the Attlee governments and analyses the alternative, more militant, programme which the Labour Left devised.
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Ben Tillett - Portrait Of A Labour Leader

by Jonathan Schneer

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 First published in 1982. To study Tillettâ€™s career is to study the modern British labour movement in its formative stages. In this book, not only the career of this remarkable and mercurial man is analysed, but our knowledge of the wider scene in which he played so major a role is increased.
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Keir Hardie - The Making Of A Socialist

by Fred Reid

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 First published in 1978. This book is an essay in labour biography. Labour leaders of the nineteenth century are often enigmatic personalities, and James Keir Hardie is no exception. The main purpose of this study is to penetrate the heart of the enigma that is Kier Hardie. This title will be of interest to students of politics and history.
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Labour'S Battle In The U.S.A - He Fight For Industrial Unionism

by J. Raymond Walsh

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 First published in 1938. This study of the labour crisis in the USA consists of interviews with leaders and members of labour unions, unorganised workers, businessmen, and those in positions of public responsibility. The author explores the foundations of the crisis, and examines the possible issues that the US labour force were to encounter.
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The International Labour Organisation - The First Decade

by Albert Thomas

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 First published in 1931. This study was written by various officials of the International Labour Office, and provides an overview of the work of this institution as it was in the years after its initial formation. The authors provide a full and systematic description of the activities within the organisation.
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Recollections Of A Labour Pioneer

by Francis William Soutter

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 First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of interest to anyone interested in political and social history.
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The Changing Labour Party

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 First published in 1992. This book presents an analysis of the fundamental changes to Labour policy which occurred during the 1980s. It examines in detail the ideological and political context of the Policy Review undertaken by the Party following its third consecutive electoral defeat in 1987.
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Employers And Labour In The English Textile Industries, 1850-1939

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 First published in 1988. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession.
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Labour - The Unions And The Party

by Bill Simpson

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 First published in 1973. In this study, the author adopts a historical approach, tracing the evolution of socialist thinking during the past century and relating this to the growth of the union movement.
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Political Purpose In Trade Unions

by Irving Richter

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 First published in 1973. In this study of trade union political activity in the period since 1945, the author demolishes much of the original rhetoric and inherited wisdom to provide an alternative insight on the entire subject of unions in politics. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of history and politics.
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The British Labour Movement And Film, 1918-1939

by Stephen G. Jones

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 First published in 1987. Using a wealth of primary sources, Stephen Jones investigates the role played in cinema affairs by the Labour Movement, stressing the important contributions made by the Labour Party, Communist Party and trade unions in the production and presentation of film.
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Workers At Play - A Social And Economic History Of Leisure, 1918-1939

by Stephen G. Jones

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 First published in 1986. This book explores developments in the cinema, sport, holidays, gambling, drinking and many more recreational activities, and situates working-class leisure within the determining economic and social context. In particular, the inventiveness of working people â€˜at playâ€™ is highlighted.
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